The study uses archive materials and accounts given by contemporaries to map another period in the history of the Roman-Catholic Church in Southern Bohemia in the years of oppression. The first part presents profiles of two chapterhouse vicars. The canon Miloslav Trdla was the ordinary for the diocese of Ceske Budejovice in 1972-1974 and the canon Josef Kavale in 1974-1990. The study documents religious life in the diocese of Ceske Budejovice using statistical data about sacraments and teaching of religion at schools.